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Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

#33
post #8

https://newsblur.com/

Tried gazillions of them, NewsBlur is the best (unless you need some fancy pants features like tiles or whatever). Killer feature for me is the ability to group your feeds then making them availale via separate rss channels. The mobile client is also pretty damn good.

Newsblur did add (somewhat recently) a "tiles" like view for graphic/image blogs to the web version. Newsblur might not always be the fastest at picking up hip new features, but I find that Samuel is pretty reliable about eventually adding the "greatest hits" of what everybody else has been doing.

It's also open source for those that want to try to directly contribute code fixes/ideas, but I've rarely felt that need. I'm happy enough just paying the Premium subscription every year and knowing that suggestions on the forums (used to be UserVoice, now is Discourse) get responses pretty quick.

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

#35
post #7

ViennaRSS https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss

I was the lead dev for Vienna for several years, and it still feels great to see a shout-out like this. Glad you enjoy it :-)

Used and loved it back when I was on OSX. Thank you for your work! Much appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

#36
Honestly I use a trivial client to download RSS-feeds and convert them to emails.

(I rewrote rss2email in golang.)

It means I don't need yet-another application/client and I can do sorting, tagging, etc as I would for emails. Doesn't matter which host I'm on, or where I am, the state of "new" vs "read" is maintained, for example.

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

#37
post #20
post #6

Don’t use one

So why the hell comment?

Sadly less and less sites are providing rss feeds albeit it technically is really easy when having a content management system anyway. So todays we have to resort to a twitter to rss converter service and we integrate the feed into a Telegram or TG cousin via a Bot.

It is a sad state of affairs and I share the sentiment that seems to be dripping from this short post.

So much has been broken. So much has been watered down or simply blown away by flashy blinky adsy stuff. Sigh.

Re: Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

#39
post #8

https://newsblur.com/

Tried gazillions of them, NewsBlur is the best (unless you need some fancy pants features like tiles or whatever). Killer feature for me is the ability to group your feeds then making them availale via separate rss channels. The mobile client is also pretty damn good.

I'd really like a way to "shuffle" stories, such that if, say, CNN pushes out 10 stories and the Guardian pushes out 10 stories 15m later, that the order of presentation shuffles the two of them instead of just showing one source.

Also, link deduplication, because sometimes articles from the e.g. the CNN Politics RSS overlap with the CNN US RSS

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